Announcing the General Availability of Daytona Version 1.6

FIX Flyer’s engineers are proud to release Daytona 1.6 to the entire electronic trading community by greatly enhancing ease of use and features based on feedback from its diverse and rapidly growing global user base.

Daytona is the only FIX Monitoring and Trade Management tool that can be simultaneously configured for both traders working on a business level and technical support group responsible for high speed, high volume FIX trading. Daytona supports any proprietary or commercial FIX engines such as the FIX Flyer Engine, QuickFIX, Cameron, or Appia.

Daytona is the central monitoring component for the most demanding trading desks in the world.

Daytona 1.6 posts significant improvements for trading metrics such as average order acknowledgement time and network latency, custom tag and message support, session configuration information from an external source, rules based FIX session watchdogs, and highly configurable alerting to the screen or email.

Additionally, Daytona 1.6 adds support FIX Protocol version 5.0 for both Service Packs 1 and 2, and is fully prepared for any additional FIX Protocol updates as they are released.

Major new features in this release include:

• Enhanced usability and configurability
• More message statistics (cancel ratios, average order acknowledgement, and network latency)
• Tag and message type coloring
• FIX 5.0 and FIXT 1.1 support
• Cut and paste any view to the clipboard
• Rules based alerting including emails
• Easy custom tag and message handling from externally defined data dictionaries
• Master, session, tracing and search views
• Real time updating capability of tens of thousands of trades per second
• User configurable column naming and layouts
• Message and tag based highlighting and coloring
• Ability to read in a FIX session list from a centrally defined external source, greatly enhancing session management
• Comprehensive view management
• Tracing views that allow quick access by any identifying tag such as ClOrdID, OrderID, ExecID, OrigClOrdID, etc.
• A rules based session watchdog that detects unscheduled session drops
• Backward compatibility for all configuration and user preferences
• Many bug fixes

Please email us at support@fixflyer.com for upgrade information.

About FIX Flyer
With over 100 clients worldwide, including UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan, FIX Flyer develops advanced technology for managing complex, multi-asset, institutional securities trading using highly scalable software and network technologies. FIX Flyer provides Managed FIX services; the Daytona trade monitor; the Ignition regression testing, certification and trade validation tool; Flyer Online OMS; and tools for commission and risk management. The Flyer Engine is the first FIX server designed to manage high volume, ultra-low latency trading networks and ECNs, easily scaling to thousands of connections. FIX Flyer hosts and partners with Equinix, the leading global provider of network-neutral data center and interconnection services. Visit www.fixflyer.com for company information and to request a free demonstration. Follow us on twitter.com/fixflyer. Based in New York City, FIX Flyer is a member of the FIX Protocol Ltd., the industry-led standards organization.

For more information about FIX Flyer please contact:
Nick Nickitas
FIX Flyer
+1 888 349-3593
nick@fixflyer.com

Brian Ross
FIX Flyer, LLC
+1 888 349-3593
brian@fixflyer.com